Lemon Cream and Berry Trifle

This recipe was created for my sister, Beth. She wanted something easy and I wanted to make sure it was something that would impress her friends. I'm so proud of her and how well she did! I hope that it gives her the confidence to keep trying recipes. And thanks Beth for taking beautiful pictures so I can post one here. If anyone ever needs a specific recipe for an event or something please leave a comment and I'd love to help out. Sharing my knowledge about cooking is almost as satisfying as sharing my food.

You can buy most of these things at the store and the only thing your going to have to make is the "lemon cream" which you'll need a mixer for (if you don't have one you can just do it by hand with a whisk)I like making this dessert in the oven because it doesn't need any cooking and it's light and refreshing to eat. You can make this no more than 3-4 hours in advance. If you do the pound cake will get soggy and it won't be as delicious. To serve this dish you need some kind of clear vessel. Beth used drinking glasses and made individual ones. Another idea is if you have a large glass bowl and you can make a large vessel and scoop it out to serve.

to garnish and make it look extra fancy you can top the whole thing with whipped cream (use the electric mixer and the rest of the whipping cream you have. just mix up until it is the consistency of whipped cream) you can also get a bar of chocolate and make shavings. Use a peeler and grate it against the side of the chocolate so thin slices come off. It looks extra fancy and your friends will say oohhh and ahhhh haha

Ingredients:
Lemon Cream
1 12 oz container mascarpone cheese (if non in store can use same amount of cream cheese)
2 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
2 T powdered sugar

Mix these four ingredients together in a bowl with an electric mixer until it has a creamy/whipped consistency.

Things to buy for the layers of the trifle:
pound cake
Fruit jam
fresh berries if in season or frozen berries (make sure jam and berries are same type. I suggest strawberries and/or raspberries.)


To make the trifle:
1. Defrost the berries

2. Slice pound cake into thin slices. Spread with a thin layer of the jam. You may need to cut up these to make them fit into the glasses your going to use to serve.

3. Now your going to layer everything into the glasses. Start with the pound cake jam side up. Then a layer of berries. then a layer of the lemon cream. Keep doing this pattern until you've reached the top of your glasses (leaving room for garnish). End with a piece of pound cake jam side down.

4. Cover with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and any left over berries. You can also add some chocolate in between layers of berries and lemon cream if you want.